Worried about coronavirus thread 23

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Welcome to thread 23
Here is a link to the previous thread
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3845520-Worried-about-coronavirus-thread-22

5-10k infected now? Really?

Wow he said we probably have 5-10000 cases.

I agree plans could be made for emergency childcare for those who really need it (i.e. emergency services and healthcare workers).

Chief Medical Officer just suggested thousands of people could be infected already in the UK!

It's easy for him to say about losing loved ones before their time, I bet his bloody relatives will be fine and dandy with their private bloody healthcare.

What about the rest of us with children and relatives with lung, heart or other at risk conditions? I mean, Boris standing there bullshitting us all will really make us all feel better when younger people start dying of it eh? Very reassuring.
I always knew another 5 years of Tory bullshit was going to suck. Even I couldn't foresee it sucking this much.

Why do we think we can out-wit this but no one else can??

Also what could work is relocating or shuffling teachers into their local schools as opposed to their place of work .. as a bid to limit use of public transport ?!

I just don't see how he can know that- unless he's suggesting all the testing they have done is totally ineffective.

About the only truthful things he said was that it will get worse before it gets better, that we will loose loved ones and that we don’t know the true figure of the infected.

I’m not a gambler. I’m not playing

@JJPC err, why didn't you keep him home?

Persuasion fail. In order to expo and persuade you need not just to set out your stall it adresse the other sides questions !! Come on - this is basic advocacy.

Were screwed

Boris has completely NOT reassured me I have to say. He also either looks like he's got a shitty case of the lurgy (ho hum) or brown underwear from crapping himself.

I am going to come out and say actually I think the 5-10000 thing is wrong and may be a deliberate lie. It's all about persuading us it's not that bad, really.

They are trying to persuade us it's all ok to carry on as normal for the moment.

@Youngatheart00 because he's Boris and he's a Tory. That's why he thinks we can beat it by doing fuck all like Italy did originally until it was too late.
You mark my words, our number of cases and deaths will be highest outside China within a month.

What are they doing to push this back?

This is what I'm doing not getting?

What is the action to delay?
I can't understand this?

Everything is going on at normal.

We need lots of people to get ill.

‘Clearly we are stopping the contain phase’ - how ? What has changed ???

Repeating things about not closing schools, brought out this 13-16 weeks figure.

If that's the case then why are other countries closing schools?

I think we are being lied to.

I’m not sure private healthcare hospitals have A&E facilities or ICUs? So we’re all reliant on the NHS.

Why does he think we are 4 weeks behind Italy?

When we isolate, 14 days worth of people are still to get ill.

If you wait till the exponential part of the curve, that’s thousands of people

Why 4 weeks behind Italy?

Whitty looks like he has aged 20 years in a week. I don't trust him at all at this point. I don't trust any of them.

What exactly is a "continuous cough"?

Increased risk to high for all 4 UK nations.

@BiBiBirdie yes I can see that happening.

Italy reports 2,651 new cases of coronavirus and 189 new deaths, raising total to 15,113 cases and 1,016 dead t.co/eUoE2b20hL
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